Alycia Fridkin, Annette Browne, Colleen Varcoe NEXUS Spring Institute 2009 April 17th, 2009 This research is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Presentation Objectives To describe challenges in health services for women experiencing intersecting marginalizations To describe intersectionality To show how an intersectional analysis can be applied to health services for women experiencing marginalization An overview of the research Lessons from two Urban Aboriginal Health Clinics Community-based and participatory Mixed methods informed by critical perspectives Research objectives include to develop primary health indicators Findings inform health services and policy Contextualizing Health Services Service users face issues related to housing, income, poverty, disability, sex work, food security, barriers to accessing health services have complex health needs including addictions, mental health problems, chronic pain and illness, HIV/AIDs and Hep C, trauma, violence, abuse Intersectionality Ableisml i Colonialisml i li Classisml i Heterosexism and Homophobia i i Racismi SexismiAddictionsddictions HIV/AIDSI / I S Chronic PainChronic Pain Mental Health Problems ental ealth Proble s PovertyPovertyViolenceiolence Service User Applying an intersectional analysis to health services Health services are provided in the context of patient’s lives An intersectional lens can inform the ways in which knowledge about health services is constructed and exchanged An intersectional analysis challenges what is constructed as “the problem” I was put on Tylenol #3s when I was 12…. I have pain every single day…. So, I’ve been in and out of the hospital lots, you know, being addicted to morphine and pills and everything (Woman, age 31). An intersectional analysis highlights the inter-relatedness of poverty, addictions, trauma, violence and chronic pain Addictions are foregrounded as the problem and the underlying factors are ignored Strategies to address underlying factors that impact health are needed An intersectional analysis informs the development of ways of responding to women’s intersecting needs I got the subsidy from them [the nurse and social worker at the Health Centre] for housing and I got the kids back now… That really made me look in the mirror at myself …I knew that I wanted to go to rehab. I’ve been thinking about it for a whole year since I got the subsidy… [The subsidy] is like winning a lottery to me. [Other people] don’t realize the vacancy rate, the homelessness, living in the inner city hotels, the infestations of bugs. [With] the subsidy, I thought, I’ve really got to smarten up, pull up my socks and start really watching the company I keep and start getting my life on track. And it’s getting there. [First Nations woman, HIV positive, and “clean” for 3 months] Implications for health services research Informing effective delivery of health services “Giving back” to the community at the policy, organizational and individual level An intersectional analysis… informs new ways of thinking about health services, sets the stage for the development of strategies that respond to the broader determinants of health that impact women’s lives
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Title | Using intersectionality to inform health services for Aboriginal women experiencing marginalization |
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Varcoe, Colleen Browne, Annette Fridkin, Alycia |
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University of British Columbia. NEXUS Spring Institute |
Date Issued | 2009-04 |
Description | Health service organizations in Vancouver’s downtown eastside (DTES) are challenged with providing effective health services for a highly marginalized population with complex health needs. Many health service users in the DTES contend with a multiplicity of social injustices including structural violence, systemic racism and colonization, subsequently resulting in a myriad of health effects such as addictions, mental health problems, trauma, chronic pain and poverty. The application of intersectionality, an emerging concept within critical theory that can be used to understand multiple health and social identities, to health services works to create new knowledge that can be translated into practice in the form of health service delivery. For example, health services for Aboriginal women in the DTES tend to focus on addictions, yet do not address related issues of violence, pain and abuse. From an intersectional approach these health dimensions are inextricably bound and must be simultaneously addressed. Focusing on a weekly women-only drop-in for highly marginalized women from the DTES, held at a community-based Aboriginal health organization, an intersectional analysis is used to examine how health services can be uniquely delivered to address the intersecting health needs, and realities of women’s lives. The findings from this work will inform the effective delivery of health services to women affected by marginalizing practices and policies, as well as provide insight to the ways in which intersectionality can be applied to understand social complexities in health service settings. |
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Health behaviour Social context Intersectionality Women Aboriginal health Knowledge exchange |
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Language | eng |
Date Available | 2009-11-25 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
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DOI | 10.14288/1.0062456 |
URI | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15795 |
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Applied Science, Faculty of Nursing, School of |
Peer Review Status | Unreviewed |
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